*Aspartame - The World's Best Ant Poison*

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*Aspartame - The World's Best Ant Poison*

 

From the June 2006 Idaho Observer:

 

contributed by Jan Jensen of WELLthy Choices

 

We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have

spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to

keep

them under control but nothing has helped.

 

So when I read somewhere that aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually

developed as an ant poison and only changed to being considered non-

poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made

on

it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a try.

 

I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a

corner

of each of our bathrooms. That was about 2 years ago and I have not

seen

any carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months. It works better than

the

most deadly poisons I have tried. Any time they show up again, I

simply

dump another package of Nutrasweet in a corner, and they will be

gone

for a year or so again. Since posting this information I have had

many

people tell me of their success solving ant problems with this

substance, when nothing else worked.

 

We found later that *small black ants* would not eat the aspartame.

It

was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would

quickly

take it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours,

usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and

sometimes it

does not. Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or

something.

 

Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison

did

not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a

light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet

and

ground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of

them grabbing it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked

the

mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug

the

mound up some, and still saw none of them.

 

How does it Work: Aspartame is a neuropoison. It most likely kills

the

ants by interfering with their nervous system. It could be direct,

like

stopping their heart, or something more subtle like killing their

sense

of taste so they can't figure out what is eatable, or smell, so they

can't follow their trails, or misidentify their colonies members, so

they start fighting each other. Not sure what causes them to end up

dying, just know that for many species of ants it will kill them

quickly

and effectively. As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and

washing any skin areas that come in contact with this poison, and

avoid

getting it in your mouth, despite anything the labeling may

indicate. I

suspect it will work for other insects such as yellow jackets as

well,

but have not tested that yet.

 

More information on this fantastic poison can be found at:

www.dorway.com <_http://www.dorway.htt_ (http://www.dorway.com/) >